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Statements and Messages

11 June 2010

SG/SM/12954

Secretary-General Urges Young People to Use ‘Creativity and Passion’ to Start Building Peaceful World Today, Marking Countdown until International Day

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for the 100-day countdown to the International Day of Peace, beginning on 13 June:

11 June 2010

SG/SM/12952

Secretary-General Deeply Concerned by Renewed Violence in Kyrgyzstan; Urges Utmost Restraint to Prevent Further Loss of Life

The following statement was issued today by the Spokesperson for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon:

11 June 2010

SG/SM/12955-ENV/DEV/1147-OBV/888

Secretary-General Stresses Importance of Drylands, in Message for World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought

Following is UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon’s message for the World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought, to be observed on 17 June:

11 June 2010

SG/SM/12953

Cooperation Between UN, Shanghai Cooperation Organization Dynamically Expanding, in Shared Quest for Peace, Prosperity, Says Secretary-General, in Message

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message to the Council of Heads of State of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), delivered by Ján Kubiš, Executive Secretary, United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (ECE), in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, 11 June:

10 June 2010

SG/SM/12951/Rev.1-AFR/1993/Rev.1

Secretary-General, Addressing Cameroon National Assembly, Calls for Political Will Needed to Help Africa Meet Millennium Development Goals

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban-Ki moon’s remarks to the National Assembly of Cameroon, in Yaoundé today, 10 June:

9 June 2010

SG/SM/12948-AFR/1989

Secretary-General Praises Burundi’s Important Progress in Consolidating Peace; Says United Nations Will Be ‘Close Partner’ in Facing Future Challenges

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moons remarks to national actors, delivered in French, in Bujumbura, Burundi, 9 June:

9 June 2010

SG/SM/12950-DC/3245-SC/9949

Secretary-General, in Statement after Adoption of Sanctions Text, Reiterates Need for Iran to Comply with All Resolutions

The following statement was issued today by the Spokesperson for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon:

9 June 2010

SG/SM/12949-AFR/1992

Paying Tribute to Burundi’s Peacekeepers in Somalia, Secretary-General Says He Looks Forward to Full Deployment of African Union Mission

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks, delivered in French, at his meeting with the Burundian Battalion of the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) in Bujumbura, Burundi, today, 9 June:

9 June 2010

SG/SM/12947-AIDS/159

Response to HIV/AIDS Reaches Crossroads, as Treatment, Prevention Advances Provide Hope, ‘And Yet We Need to Do Much More,’ Says Secretary-General

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s statement to the General Assembly plenary meeting on HIV/AIDS, delivered by Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro, 9 June:

8 June 2010

SG/SM/12944-DEV/2802

Secretary-General Calls for Improved Management of Transboundary Water, in Message to Mid-Term Review Conference on International Decade

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message to the High-level Conference on the Mid-term Review of the Implementation of the International Decade, “Water for Life”, 2005-2015, delivered by Sha Zukang, Under Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs, in Dushanbe today, 8 June: